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Our ideas are extremely innovative - like the energies in which we invest.

Since the middle of the 90s, NORD/LB has been involved as a financer of projects in the area of renewable energies and has done pioneering work in the financing of wind power. With countless financing projects and consulting mandates for wind parks (for land and water) and solar parks, it is one of the top arrangers on the European and North American market today.

NORD/LB arranges combined bond and bank financing

NORD/LB has arranged a combined bank and bond financing (a “hybrid financing”) for Gaelectric Gaelectric, a longstanding client of NORD/LB, approached NORD/LB to arrange a financing to acquire a 46MW wind park in Ireland. In their bank selection process they set two key objectives: a financing solution that delivered the longest debt maturity, combined with the lowest average cost of debt compared to the next available alternative.

NORD/LB finances two wind farms in Lower Saxony and Italy

First windfarm project finance deal of the NORD/LB in Finland

NORD/LB arranged a project financing of a windfarm in Finland for project developer wpd AG having its headquarter in Bremen, Germany. Overall about 100 millions euro debt capital will be provided by NORD/LB in cooperation with Commerzbank. It is the first renewable energy project financing for NORD/LB on the Finnish market.

NORD/LB and Talanx finance two solar parks in Brandenburg

NORD/LB Norddeutsche Landesbank and Talanx have jointly provided their support with project financing for two solar parks already in operation since 2010 close to the town of Cottbus in South Brandenburg. This marks the first opportunity for NORD/LB to work with the institutional investor Talanx. As part of this strategic cooperation, NORD/LB and investors of the Talanx Group jointly provided long-term loans upon financial close. NORD/LB handled the arrangement of project financing with the sponsors.

NORD/LB Norddeutsche Landesbank has financed further solar rooftop projects in France and, in the course of this, has continued to collaborate with Danish fund manager OBTON A/S. The total financing volume for the three projects closed in 2016 together with OBTON amounts to € 48 million.

NORD/LB took an unprecedented step and provided the largest solar portfolio syndicate financing in Victoria and Queensland with a total financing volume of AUD 231million. Australian renewable energy developer Edify Energy and German investor Wirsol will build and operate these three new large-scale solar farms expected to be completed by Q1 2018.

NORD/LB finances major wind park in Thuringia

NORD/LB is financing the construction and subsequent operation of a wind farm in Rastenberg, Thuringia, for the German project development company wpd onshore GmbH & Co KG. This is one of the biggest wind farm projects ever financed by NORD/LB in the German onshore market.

NORD/LB arranges financing for the biggest solar park in Europe to date: 90.4 MWp in Germany

NORD/LB has structured and arranged a non-recourse project senior debt financing of app. EUR 104 million to fund construction and operation of a PV plant ("poly- and monocrystalline") located near Briest, Brandenburg, Germany.

NORD/LB finances the "Turnow II" solar park in Brandenburg

NORD/LB has taken over the project financing for the "Turnow II" solar park in the municipality of Turnow-Preilack near Cottbus in the federal state of Brandenburg. This follows the bank's co-financing in 2009 already of the directly adjacent "Turnow I" solar park on the former "Lieberoser Heide" military exercise area.

NORD/LB accompanied innovative financing of a wind farm in the UK

NORD/LB has structured and realized the project financing for the construction and operation of a wind farm in Hyndburn, Lancashire/England with a project volume of around EUR 45 million. The wind farm has a capacity of 24.6 megawatts (MW), and its developer and operator is EnergieKontor AG.